The search is continuing for a teenage boy missing off the coast at a popular holiday town in South Australia.
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00:00The search and rescue operation has resumed for a teenage boy swept off the coast here
00:06in Victor Harbour.
00:07SA police say that the 16-year-old boy from Blair Athol, which is in the Adelaide's northern
00:12suburbs was swept from rocks about 3.15pm yesterday on Sunday afternoon here at Granite
00:18Island.
00:19The State Emergency Service and SAIPOL are searching by foot while POLAR are using a
00:23helicopter to search by air, searching the waters around the area here.
00:27Marine safety vessels are also on standby.
00:30Victor Harbour here is a tourism town really that's around 80km south of Adelaide and Granite
00:36Island is one of the more popular tourism destinations separated from the mainland by
00:41a causeway.
00:42Now this has all happened as we've seen some pretty significant weather here in South Australia
00:47and across southern parts of the country as well.
00:50There's been a lot of wind, also some rain.
00:52SA police say that this weather has hampered the search efforts so far as well.
00:58Speaking yesterday, the officer in charge of the Hills Fleurieu Local Service Area,
01:03Superintendent Joanne Howard, she thanked the local community and also the local rescue
01:08services for all their efforts so far.